New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Hardcover. Small university bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume. About Fine in a Fine cloth slipcase, not the clamshell box issued with this title. Lucille Corcos. Two octavo volumes (5-3/4" x 8-3/4") bound in gilt-stamped half red buckram and blue boards decorated in gilt. Translated from the Russian by Bernard Guilbert Guerney; introduction by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. Color drawings by Lucille Corcos printed in process offset. One of the smaller limitations of the press. Copy #1005 of 1200 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

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Bookseller: Charles Agvent (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 018562
Title: [DEAD SOULS] CHICHIKOV'S JOURNEYS; OR, HOME LIFE IN OLD RUSSIA
Author: GOGOL, Nikolai
Illustrator: Lucille Corcos
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Small university bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume. About Fine in a Fine cloth slipcase, not the clamshell box iss
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Limited Editions Club
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1944
Keywords: Signed, Illustrated Books, Limited Editions Club, 19th Century Russian Literature, Color Plates, LEC
Bookseller catalogs: 19th Century Russian Literature;

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Charles Agvent

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We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).

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